Bouquet-pin



(No Model.)

W. A. BR UNK A.

BOUQUET PIN.

No. 412,833. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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BOUQUET-MN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,833, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed July 1, 1889- Serial No. 316,127. (No model) To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM A. BRUNKA, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bouquet Pins, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of my improved pin;.Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the same, taken 011 line as 00; Fig. 3, a front elevation representing the pin in use; Fig. 4, a rear elevation showing the pin provided with a clamp for the flower-stems; Fig. 5, a vertical section taken on line y y in Fig. 4t, and Fig. 6 an elevation of the clamp.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different fig ures of the drawings.

My invention relates to pins designed especially to contain flowers and be attached to the clothing; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the pin, which may be constructed in any ornamental form desired, the one shown being designed to represent a flower. Hinged at the rear of the body A, and preferably near the top, there is an ordinary attaching-pin b and loop (Z. The bodyA is bent to form a centrally-arranged vertical opening f at theheart of the flower, and adapted to receive the stems of the bouquet. Two verticallyarranged parallel side pieces g are secured to the back of the body A-one at each side of the opening f. To the upper end of these side pieces a lid or clamping-plate his hinged at 2'. The lower or free end of the plate h is bent inward to engage the body, as shown at in Fig. 5, and is provided at this point with teeth Z for penetrating the flower-stems. The central portion of the hinge 2' has a longitudinal slot m, Fig. 5, and the plate It is provided centrally near its lower end with an opening A flat spring g has one end loosely disposed in the hinge-slot m, its opposite end projecting through the opening 1) and resting on a lip 7", formed on the inner face of the plate h. (Shown in Fig. 0.) A. V- shaped stiffening-piece t is secured to the inner face of the plate (see Fig. 6) opposite the hingeslot, and serves as a stop to prevent the spring protruding too far through said slot when the lid is open. A thumb-piece o is formed on the lid h below the opening p.

In the use of my improvement the clamp may be omitted, if desired,'and the stems O of the flowers inserted through the body-op ening f, the device being secured to the clothing by the attaching-pin b. The flowers will thus ordinarily be suiiiciently confined between the person of the wearer and the pinbody to hold them in position. hen the clamp is employed; its lid h is elevated, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, until the upper end of the spring q projects through the hinge-slot sufliciently to engage the stop 15, in which position the expansive force of the spring acts to keep said lid elevated instead of closing it. The flower-stems may now readily be inserted in the opening f and between the side pieces g. By depressing the lid 72 slightly the spring (1 will act to force it downward, driving its teeth Z into the stems and securely fastening the-flowers in the pin.

Having thus explained my invention,what I claim is 1. In a bouquet-pin, a body having a floweropening and attaching-pin, a clamp secured to the rear of said body, comprising a hinged toothed plate, and a flat spring having one end detachably disposed in a slot in said hinge and its opposite end at the free end of said lid, substantially as described.

2. In a bouquet-pin, a clamp comprising guide-plates secured to the pin-body at each side of its flower-opening, a toothed lid hinged to said plate, an attaching-pin, and a detachable flat spring having an end projecting into a slot in the plate-hinge, its opposite end restspring q, and hinge-slot m, all being arranged ing on a stud at the free end of said lid, subto operate substantially as described. stant-ially as described.

3. In a bouquet-pin, the body A, having WILLIAM A. BRUNKA. 5 the opening f and pin 1), in combination with Witnesses:

the guide-plates g, lid h, hinged at '1; and hav- 0. M. SHAW, ing the stiffening-piece 2?, slot 1), and lip 1', the K. DURFEE. 

